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UNITED STATES PATENT WILLIAM E. WEBB, JR., OF LARCHMON'I MANOR, ANDGEORGE L. CLOSE, OF MOUNT- VERNON, NEW YORK, ASSIGNORS T0 CHURCH, WEBB &CLOSE, INC., 01? NEW YORK,

N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

TRENCH-HELMET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 3, 1918.

Application filed January 31, 1918. Serial No. 214,766.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM E. WEBB, Jr., and GEORGE L. Green, citizensof the United States, residing in Larchmont Manor and Mount Vernon,respectively, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Trench-Helmets, of whichthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in wearer and to be secured atthe back. Any

suitable fastening means may be used, but we prefer to use tyingstrings, as shown in the drawings.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the helmet;

Fig. 2 a rear view;

Fig. 3 a side elevation;

Fig. 4 a front elevation showing the helmet in use; and

Fig. 5 a rear View of the tabs in use.

Referring to the various parts by numerals, 1 designates the top or domepart of the helmet, and 2 the neck portion thereof. 3 designates theface opening, and 4 the throat protecting tabs which are formed integralwith the neck portion. The helmet is made up of a rear section 5; twoside sections 6, and a short front dome part 7. The rear section andside sections extend from the bottom of the neck portion to the top ofthe dome, and the throat protecting tabs are integral with the lowerpart of the side sections and extend forwardly therefrom, as shownclearly in Figs. 1 and 3. The helmet may be made of any suitablematerial; We have used successfully a warm felted fabric. Secured to theends of the throat protecting tabs are tying strings 8; and the edges ofthe helmet are bound by a binding tape 9.

In use the helmet is pulled down over the head of the wearer, asindicated in Fig. 4, and the throat protecting tabs are crossed over thechin and carried around the throat,

the tying strings being secured together in the back, as shown clearlyin Fig. 5. The throat tabs 4 are each formed just sufiiciently long toextend'rearwardly and only partly encircle the neck of the wearer insuch an manner as to reduce to the minimum the amount and bulk ofmaterial about the neck,

thus allowing perfect freedom of movement I of the head and neck of thewearer, which is essent al to the strenuous and active life of asoldier. The helmet is formed of a sufficiently warm material, and theneck portion 2 thereof extends downwardly well over the shoulders of thewearer, so that anumber of wrappings of the tabs 4 about the neck 1sunnecessary to provide the required pro: tectlon. The tying strings 8eliminate the necessity of tying the ends of-the tabs themselvestogether, which would produce alarge and uncomfortable, as well ashampering, amount of material about the neck. The tying strings furtherprovide a fastening means which can be easily and quickly maf nipulatedby the wearer, even when the connected by buttons or the like,manipulation thereof would be difficult and frequently impossible werethe hands of the wearer cold or numb. When in position the helmet issecurely fastened, and any superposed headgear, such as a shrapnelhelmet or other hat, may be placed over the helmet, and when said outerheadgear is removed the trench helmet remains securely in position. Itwill, of course, be understood that the throat tabs. may be longer orshorter, as desired, and that other forms of fastening means may besubstituted for the tying strings; it being desirable, however, that thesecuring means be at the back of the helmet,

in order that they shall be out of the way of the wearer, and that therewill be nothing in front liable to catch in the projecting sufficient toextend downwardly well over '80 hands are numb or cold, while were thetabs the shoulders of the wearer, forwardly extending throat protectingtabs integral with theneckportion and at the lower part of the faceopening adapted to be crossed over the -chin'of the wearer and carriedrearwardly the-shoulders of the wearer, forwardly extendingthroat-protecting tabs integral with the neck-portion and at the lowerpart of the face opening adapted to be crossed over the -1 chin of thewearer and carried rearwardlyaround theneck, each of said tabs being ofI a length "sufficient to extend only partially around the neck so asnot to overlap at the rear, and a tying stringsecured to the ex-.tremity of each of said tabs; for fastening Copies of this patent maybe obtained for the ends of the tabs together at; the rear of thehelmet.

3. A trench helmet formed with a face upper ed e of the face opening,forwardly extending throat protecting tabs formed integral with thelower neck portions of the sidesections said throat protecting tabsbeing adapted to be crossed over the chin and carried around the throatof the wearer, and means connected to the ends of said tabs adapted tobe connected together at the back of the wearer.

In testimony whereof we hereunto aflix our signatures this 26 day ofJanuary. 1918.

WILLIAM WEBB, JR. GEORGE. L. CLOSE.

five cents. each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. 0.

